I recall reading a few days ago that someone in the Guernsey parliament inferred that BE was having financial problems and while this was speedily shot down by BE, I wonder how well BE is actually doing? Being a hybrid low cost carrier (i.e. not fully sure what it's doing) and operating a pretty mixed fleet, could it be that EZY knows something about BE's position. It is after all well established in another BE base, LGW, so if worse came to worse, it could move in on more of BE's territory if it saw an opportunity opening up.